Rather, as I
look back on our experience, I feel more like claiming fellowship with
the "wanderer" who called the place of his hardship "Bethel" because it
was there, at the end of self and of favoring conditions, that he found
God.
THE PILOT
I was near "the end of my rope"--I was not frightened, or discouraged;
my mind was perfectly clear; I was not stampeded. Of course, I had
thought of God and of prayer, but I was a skeptic, as I supposed, and
considered both not proven. But the steady contemplation of the
probability of death, for seven successive days, under conditions that
compelled candor, raised questions that skepticism could not answer, and
gave to my questions answers that skepticism could not refute. There
comes a time, under such conditions, when common sense asserts itself
and sophistry fails to satisfy. Since I made this discovery in my
personal experience, I have learned that my case was not peculiar, but
in keeping with a general law in human experience, long understood and
admirably stated in the 107th Psalm.
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